What BPM is ambient?
The most common tempo for ambient is 120 to 130 BPM. Across 28,930 ambient songs with verified tempo in the TempoTunes library, the median is 100 BPM and half of all songs fall between 81 and 120 BPM.
- Most common
- 120 to 130BPM
- Median
- 100BPM
- Songs
- 28,930verified tempo
Ambient songs across the tempo scale
Songs per 10 BPM. Orange marks the busiest stretch.
120 to 130 BPM is the busiest stretch, holding 22% of all ambient songs, but plenty of ambient lives well outside it.
One caution when you read any tempo chart: the same groove can be counted at half or double time, so a ambient song at 100 BPM can also read as 200 BPM. That is why many genres show a second, smaller hump.
The busiest ambient tempos
Chill ambient: 60 to 90 BPM
10,493 ambient songs at this pace: wind-downs, slow burns, and late-night listening.
[Grass]
Aphex Twin
70 BPM (1994)
I Only Have Eyes for You
Oneohtrix Point Never
68 BPM (2014)
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[Smáskífa, Part 1]
Sigur Rós
66 BPM (2003)
Dawn Across the Snow
Lisa Gerrard
74 BPM (2005)
Fyrsta
Ólafur Arnalds
70 BPM
Tristan
Dead Can Dance
68 BPM (1994)
independent accident
C418
74 BPM (2012)
Signals
Brian Eno
68 BPM (1983)
Steady ambient: 90 to 120 BPM
10,913 ambient songs at this pace: head-nod grooves and walking pace.
Route One 326
Sigur Rós
100 BPM (2016)
#25
Aphex Twin
90 BPM (1994)
I Bite Through It
Oneohtrix Point Never
110 BPM (2015)
saman
Ólafur Arnalds
108 BPM (2018)
Trats!
_clean
115 BPM (2006)
Equinoxe, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre
114 BPM (1978)
De profundis
Dead Can Dance
108 BPM (1985)
Briefly
Nils Frahm
105 BPM (2022)
Drive ambient: 120 to 150 BPM
7,262 ambient songs at this pace: dance-floor and workout energy.
Suite From Magnetic Rose
Oneohtrix Point Never
120 BPM (2015)
Actium
Aphex Twin
126 BPM (1992)
This Place Was a Shelter
Ólafur Arnalds
120 BPM (2013)
Oxygène, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre
126 BPM (1976)
Route One 345
Sigur Rós
129 BPM (2016)
Diary for the Fallen
Lisa Gerrard
120 BPM (2010)
Ocean
Dead Can Dance
126 BPM (1984)
Premonition
Toby Fox
126 BPM (2015)
Other genres by BPM
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